Description: Fragmentary inscription on two curved blocks
(together w:
0.40 x h:
0.80 x d:
0.37) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.09; line 2, 0.105.
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
Hadrianic Baths, lying loose in the East latrine, to which they probably belong.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: [---] ṣius Or [---]bius.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---]sius (or [---]bius) La[---]s and Irene freedwoman [---] and Commodus [---]
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1929, 82; IRT, 1952, 718, whence IRT, 2009, 718, whence EDH 059567; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1627 Leica)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 248 Lastre)